Who are some figurative artists?

Question

I'm doing a project where we have to research a figurative artist and emulate their style in our own painting. I just wanted to know some figurative artists to get started. Thanks.

Answer 1

There are many different types of figurative artist's, including different mediums and styles so I'll categorize just a few of my favorites.

Living artist's of Historic portraits:

Robert Griffing

James Bama

Howard Terpning

Barry D. Powell

Paul Calle

Paul Murray

John Buxton

Living artist's General:

Steve Hanks

John Michael Carter

Andrew Wyeth

C.W. Mundy

Dead Artist's General:

Winslow Homer

John Singer Sargent

Frank McCarthy

Rembrandt

Da Vinci

Goya

El Greco

Most of these people have websites or you can find their art on the net, at least.

Hope this helps,  

Answer 2

Do an image search on Yahoo for figurative artists. You will see many examples of 2D and 3D artists.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im...

Good luck and:

Keep Arting!

Jeff (weseye) Wesley

Answer 3

Look at paintings that Irish born British artist Francis Bacon made of the Pope - a very distinctive style: - study both his portrait of the Pope and his close-ups of faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bac...

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_p...

Answer 4

This site has a few examples http://www.oapaintings.com/figurative-pa...

not much but i hope it helps.

Good luck with your project !